Monte Cristo Vocab Test 1

Question 1

obsequious

Answer 1

obedient

Question 2

betrothal

Answer 2

engagement

Question 3

usurper

Answer 3

an illegitimate or controversial ruler

Question 4

Lucidity

Answer 4

clarity of expression

Question 5

Bequeath

Answer 5

a dead person leaving something to someone

Question 6

Quay

Answer 6

a concrete platform lying alongside water for loading and unloading ships

Question 7

purser

Answer 7

an officer on a ship who keeps the accounts

Question 8

promontory

Answer 8

a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water

Question 9

marquise

Answer 9

the wife of a marquis

Question 10

gendarme

Answer 10

an armed French police officer

Question 11

obedient

Answer 11

obsequious

Question 12

engagement

Answer 12

betrothal

Question 13

an illegitimate or controversial ruler

Answer 13

usurper

Question 14

clarity of expression

Answer 14

lucidity

Question 15

a dead person leaving something to someone

Answer 15

bequeath

Question 16

a concrete platform lying alongside water for loading and unloading ships

Answer 16

quay

Question 17

an officer on a ship who keeps the accounts

Answer 17

purser

Question 18

a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water

Answer 18

promontory

Question 19

the wife of a marquis

Answer 19

marquise

Question 20

an armed French police officer

Answer 20

gendarmes